10 | Monday, March 8, 2021 CHINA DAILY Guiyang villages reaping benefits of efforts
Local officials have helped to develop natural environment, ecommerce and tourism industries
By YUAN SHENGGAO
Villages in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, are undergoing dramatic improvements in econom ic development, environment and In recent years, people’s livelihood as the local gov Guiyang has grown ernment continues to boost ecom merce and “internet plus the industrial agriculture” to revitalize the rural revolution in rural areas. “In recent years, Guiyang has areas and supported grown the industrial revolution in the development of rural areas and supported the devel opment of local industries in scale, local industries in branding, industrialization and col scale, branding, laboration,” said Chen Yan, mayor of Guiyang. industrialization and The city will build a new group of collaboration.” demonstration zones for rural revi talization, which integrate natural Chen Yan, mayor of Guiyang environment, industrial develop ment, rural governance and innova tion, he added. “The model has transferred the In 2020, the total value of the agri land of more than 100 villagers. The culture, forestry, animal husbandry annual rent per mu, or 0.06667 and fishery in the city surpassed 30 hectares, is 600 yuan, and 15 per billion yuan ($4.63 billion). Clockwise from top: The picturesque sea of flowers in Youer village in Qingzhen, Guiyang. Farmers attend a training class on planting in cent of the income will be distribut The influx of ecommerce plat Qingzhen city, Guiyang. Consumers look to buy vegetables and agricultural products from povertystricken areas at a supermarket in ed to the villagers,” Cao said. forms into the rural market has Guiyang. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY “The villagers earn at least 80 transformed the way of local shop yuan a day and the base has plant ping, brought improvements to ed the ‘Red Beauty’ orange variety local people’s lifestyles, and become livestreaming and set a record of 1 ecommerce service center to facili al sector’s supervision of products is In 2020, the city built 141 demon imported from Japan. In the future, an important way of promoting tar million yuan in sales during a single tate the development of the live faster and easier. stration villages for the improve it will be transformed into a mod geted poverty alleviation, local offi session. broadcast ecommerce industry. In the past, Yadianhe village in ment of human settlements. It also ern agricultural sightseeing park,” cials said. Qingzhen in Guiyang is another The center built a live broadcast Qingzhen was dirty, chaotic and renovated 24,604 household toilets he added. Libei village, which once relied on landmark for ecommerce develop room to promote the integration of poor. in rural areas and 214 villagelevel Each year, many tourists drive to traditional agriculture, is now ment in rural areas. It was awarded new media and enterprises while The village’s change in appear public toilets. visit, relax and pick mulberries at renowned as Guizhou’s first Taobao as a nationallevel comprehensive expanding the pool of internet ance has benefited from the govern Through indepth improvement Yadianhe. Town, with booming online sales of demonstration zone for rural ecom celebrities. ment’s rural revitalization plan, of rural homes, the production and “We will continue to improve its local specialties such as rice tofu, merce development in 2015. In 2017, Qingzhen launched a which requires not only economic living conditions of Yadianhe have rural human settlements, build zheergen, Chinese bacon and other On Jan 20, the Qingzhen New cloud platform on quality traceabili prosperity and social development, been greatly improved. highquality orchard bases and agricultural products across the Year Festival opened on online big ty research and construction of agri but also a beautiful environment. The village has attracted Guiz expand and optimize the mulberry nation. data platform One Code Guizhou, cultural products from Guizhou “Thanks to the government’s hou Zhilian Agricultural Technolo industry,” said Fan Houjin, Party The village has created a twoway which covers exhibitions, consumer Changjin Luojiaqiao Base, Youqi subsidies, the dry toilets have been gy to set up a boutique fruit, secretary of the village. information service platform to vouchers and consumption scenari Vegetable Base and Shanyun Tea converted into clean and sanitary vegetable and citrus base and also “We will also rely on the unique analyze statistics, distribution loca os. Base. Each production base has flushable toilets. A new courtyard encouraged villagers to participate natural scenery and tourism foun tions, and sales of shopping malls, Qingzhen selects famous and equipment to monitor and analyze wall and flower beds were built in in the industry. dation to actively develop rural supermarkets, and convenience highquality local products, estab atmospheric humidity, soil, air pres my house, and the environment in “The altitude here is low and the tourism and realize the integrated sites throughout the county. lishes the themed area of Qingzhen sure and other data, while synchro the village is much better,” said Li climate is warm,” said Cao Zheng development of agriculture, cul “In addition to selling products on New Year on the platform and uses a nously transmitting it to the system Haimei, a resident in Yadianhe vil yuan, head of the base. ture and tourism.” ecommerce platforms, we also WeChat public account, short vid terminal. lage. “It is very suitable for growing Fan said the village is working on learned to sell goods through lives eos, webcasting and other channels Together with the base agricultur Li used to be a migrant worker oranges. The environment is also a rural tourism plan centered on treaming,” said Lu Kunlun, an entre to publicize its eight bowls, special al information filled in by the pro but has since started a farmhouse beautiful, which is very suitable for Dongfeng Lake and including Zhi preneur at Libei village. ties and scenic spots such as ducer, it forms a basic product that in her hometown. the development of tourism.” jin Cave and Wujiang Gallery Sce Once a migrant worker, Lu Qingzhen Huangba, Four Seasons can be viewed by scanning the code Guiyang has cleaned its villages Covering 20 hectares, the base is nic Area. Officials aim to build the returned to his hometown to start a Guizhou Hot Spring and Hongfeng on the mobile phone. through seven key projects, includ operated on a business model con entire village into a combination of business in 2018. Lake. With the support of the agricul ing domestic sewage treatment and sisting of company, cooperative, vil water tourism, boutique orchard He began selling goods through On Jan 29, the city opened its first tural cloud platform, the agricultur the upgrading of rural toilets. lage collective and farmers. sightseeing, and farming. ‘Threesense communities’ fostered in place
By HAO NAN ing green areas and building cultur ethical quality at the same time,” Li [email protected] al corridors. added. The subdistrict office of Shuid In addition to the library, the Shi Residential community offices in ong Road in Yunyan district has jicheng area also boasts a compre Guiyang, the capital of Southwest focused more on the improvement hensive cultural center, which has a China’s Guizhou province, are mak of hygiene and health services. basketball court, music studios and ing efforts to make residents have a It has boosted cooperation rooms for dancing and playing greater sense of gain, happiness and between a community health cen table tennis. security to meet their evergrowing ter with an elderly day care center A total of 26 cultural and sports needs for a better life. to provide more than 3,000 elderly teams have registered and taken The initiative is in response to the residents with entertainment, part in activities there, Li said. call of the local government to fur rehabilitation, psychological coun Jiang Datang, a local resident, ther optimize the system of basic seling and other related services. plays table tennis at the center The fishery breeding base of Wangmo county, Guizhou province. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY public services and support for Shijicheng Street in Guanshanhu everyday. social welfare projects. district has also made steady “Before the rooms were put into In May 2020, the Guiyang govern progress in developing “threesense operation, I had to go to the down ment put forward the building of communities”. town area to find a place to play, City aids areas in fight against poverty “threesense communities”, which To enrich the spiritual and cul which was very inconvenient,” refers to communities providing a tural life of local residents, the Jiang said. The 76yearold was sense of gain, happiness and securi street office has built a 24hour self selected as the chairman of the Shi By YUAN SHENGGAO Wang Hong, the legal representa cent in 2020,” said Liu Jiajun, deputy ty. service library, which is to be open jicheng table tennis association in tive of the village’s farmers’ profes Party secretary of Jiaona town. Chen Yan, mayor of Guizhou, to the public for free later this 2015 when it was founded. Now, the Guiyang, capital of Guizhou prov sional cooperative, said since the tea The city has built nine relocation said the city will focus on the con month. association has more than 50 mem ince, has advanced the rural indus industry has been developed in the sites for poverty alleviation. More struction of “threesense communi The library has two floors cover bers. trial revolution and launched a town, many villagers who went out to than 3,000 households with 12,090 ties” this year and build 41 trial ing a total area of 230 square A small health clinic was recently series of assistance projects to lift work have chosen to return home and people have been moved out of the communities with good living envi meters. It will provide popular sci built at a square by Shijicheng impoverished areas out of poverty, start their own businesses. impoverished mountains and settled ronment and better services. ence, literature, politics and chil Street, with the help of two com said local officials. “Villagers can earn 300 yuan in div in cities and towns. In Nanming district, for example, dren’s books, with a maximum munity health centers and the Gui Chen Yan, mayor of Guiyang, said idends per mu each year, and can col It also encourages leading enter living environments have been storage capacity of 15,000 books, yang iKang Guobin Medical the city has implemented six major lect daily labor fees ranging from 100 prises to build planting and breeding greatly improved in communities said Li Ling, deputy director of the Center. The clinic is equipped with assistance projects driven by its to 120 yuan depending on the type of bases of vegetables, fungi, pigs, cows under the jurisdiction of the subdis street’s social affairs service center. instruments for monitoring the industries, markets, education, medi work,” Wang said. and fishery in impoverished areas. trict office of Xinhua Road, with the “The library will stimulate people’s heart, blood pressure and blood cal care, and cadre mutual aid. The In 2018, Guanshanhu district in One example is Guiyang Agricul office pouring more resources into passion for reading and promote sugar. Doctors at the clinic will pro city has got rid of poverty by the end Guiyang assisted Jiaona town with tural Investment Development’s veg establishing new infrastructure the sharing of culture. It will also vide free services from Monday to of 2019, poverty alleviation. etable base project of more than and supporting facilities, expand enhance the public’s cultural and Friday. Since 2016, the local government The district helped the town with 33,000 hectares covering 36 coun has set up povertyalleviation funds projects, employment, education and ties in nine cities in Guizhou. It has of 1.83 billion yuan ($282 million), medical care. The district has invested helped 150,000 farmers increase with a total of 458 poverty assist 7.35 million yuan in special assistance their incomes. ance projects. The city has lifted funds to help the town’s industrial Guiyang supported the company 510,000 people out of poverty and development since 2018. to construct a standardized 600,000 removed 13 counties out of the pov With the multifaceted support of bird breeding base in Wangmo coun erty list in Guizhou over the past five Guanshanhu district, the town cur ty, with a total investment of 150 years, he said. rently has 17 professional farmer million yuan. “I used to be farming In Babu village, Jiaona town of cooperatives participating in tea seed at home, and I didn’t have much Wangmo county, Qianxinan Buyi and ling planting and 68 tea seedling income. Now I come to the base to Miao autonomous prefecture in planting points, a total of 13 profes work, and I can earn 3,500 yuan a Guizhou province, purplered tea sional farmer cooperatives in seedling month,” said Peng Falan, a 33year trees grow bountifully as the moun cultivation and 34 seedling growing old local villager. Peng works at the tain breeze blows. In the tea garden, points. chicken breeding base and is respon machines are chiming as more than “With the help of the district, our sible for picking out damaged and 10 villagers weed with agricultural town has reduced the poverty rate dirty eggs on the eggsorting line. From left: Residents play pingpong at a fitness room in Guanshanhu district in Guiyang. tools such as weeders and sickles. from 41.76 percent in 2014 to 1.24 per This is her first job. CHEN YANG / FOR CHINA DAILY Locals enjoy an art exhibition in Guiyang. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
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